Tuesday, December 10, 2013

I cannot believe that my President shook hands with a murdering, racist dictator who has been brutalizing his people and enslaving a whole nation for almost 55 years... sigh.

Three
years ago Princeton professor Cornel West, actress Ruby Dee and
director Melvin Van Peebles and 60 other African-American artists and
leaders issued a public statement (titled "Acting on Our Conscience")
that criticized the Castro dictatorship for
its "increased violations of civil and human rights for those black
activists in Cuba who dare raise their voices against the island’s
racial system."

People in the US are just not aware of Cuba's bloody
racial history and the way that Afro-Cubans (who make up 35% of the
Cuban population) have been and continue to be brutalized. POTUS should have been advised about what to do if this came up: what President Carter did decades ago when faced with the same situation and a different Castro: Ignore him.